TIMON Five thousand drops pays that.
What yours?--and yours?
Varro's
First Servant My lord,--
Varro's
Second Servant My lord,--
TIMON Tear me, take me, and the gods fall upon you!
[Exit]
HORTENSIUS 'Faith, I perceive our masters may throw their caps
at their money: these debts may well be called
desperate ones, for a madman owes 'em.
[Exeunt]
[Re-enter TIMON and FLAVIUS]
TIMON They have e'en put my breath from me, the slaves.
Creditors? devils!
FLAVIUS My dear lord,--
TIMON What if it should be so?
FLAVIUS My lord,--
TIMON I'll have it so. My steward!
FLAVIUS Here, my lord.
TIMON So fitly? Go, bid all my friends again,
Lucius, Lucullus, and Sempronius:
All, sirrah, all:
I'll once more feast the rascals.
FLAVIUS O my lord,
You only speak from your distracted soul;
There is not so much left, to furnish out
A moderate table.
TIMON Be't not in thy care; go,
I charge thee, invite them all: let in the tide
Of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide.
[Exeunt]
TIMON OF ATHENS
ACT III
SCENE V The same. The senate-house. The Senate sitting.
First Senator My lord, you have my voice to it; the fault's
Bloody; 'tis necessary he should die:
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
Second Senator Most true; the law shall bruise him.
[Enter ALCIBIADES, with Attendants]
ALCIBIADES Honour, health, and compassion to the senate!
First Senator Now, captain?
ALCIBIADES I am an humble suitor to your virtues;
For pity is the virtue of the law,
And none but tyrants use it cruelly.
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